How to burn wood pellets in 2006 Auburn corn burner

[Lordtimothy200]

I could not recommend it enough. Anything to lower the workload daily always helps. Here is a few pictures of my setup. Granted I do not clean my corn besides what is blown away in my moving it from the grain wagon to the box on the side of the house. I have not had an issue so far with it.

 

[Rxwoman1961]

I could not recommend it enough. Anything to lower the workload daily always helps. Here is a few pictures of my setup. Granted I do not clean my corn besides what is blown away in my moving it from the grain wagon to the box on the side of the house. I have not had an issue so far with it.

Just now seeing your corn set up. WOW.
So you fill it up outside and a chute keeps the stove fed. I could never do anything quite that ambitious. At least not anytime soon. A roof that doesn't leak and a basement that doesn't flood every time it rains more than an inch are on the top of the list for construction projects.
But I just love clever, handy people and cool cost saving ideas like these. That was my goal when I bought the old Siegler oil stove 15 years ago. I was hoping to be able to run it on biodiesel. Didn't quite pan out the way I had hoped.

 

[SidecarFlip]

Corn is a lot different than pellets. Corn makes 3 times the ash and it makes clinkers too. that have to be removed daily. My corn comes in 55 pound sacks or 2500 pound super sacks on skids. I mix my corn with pellets at a 3-1 ratio (mitigates the clinker issue) in 4- 30 gallon plastic trash cans sitting on a skid and I lift 4 of them up on the back deck with one of my front end loaders and take it in the house in a 5 gallon bucket and feed the stove. 4 garbage cans last me about 2 weeks on the average. I keep all my corn and pellets with the farm equipment in a large Clearspan Truss Arch building, so everything is inside out of the weather and someplace for the cats to sleep too. Unlike Tim, the corn I burn is very clean. Just Midwestern Dent Hybrid corn at about 9-10% RM.

Corn is very moisture critical. Too much and it burns poorly (and gets moldy), too little and it burns too hot.

 

[Lordtimothy200]

Learned the hard way not to reinvent the wheel. Just take other people's good idea's and combine them into something that works for you. For instance to move the corn I use 4" PVC pipe and a leaf blower, got the idea from hunters filling deer feeders. Cheap and easy, just like me, except instead of being easy I am just lazy.

 

[SidecarFlip]

The always inherent issue with moving corn in plastic piping is static electricity. Corn sliding against plastic creates static electricity and it can be a 'shocking' experience. Why I handle it the way I do. The garbage cans eliminate the 'shock' aspect.

 

[Lordtimothy200]

You got it, have to ground it or you will have that punk rock hair style. I run a wire and chain to the ground, seems to keep the 'lectricity down. Safety first you know.

 

[Washed-Up]

Wondering if you’ve fired up yet and how things are going?

 

[Ssyko]

Wondering if you’ve fired up yet and how things are going?

@Rxwoman how are things going?